People

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Benito Mussolini
Adolph Hitler
Francisco Franco
Joseph Stalin
Neville Chamberlain
Winston Churchill
Tojo Hideki
Vidkun Quisling
Charles De Gaulle
Matthew Perry
The Tuskegee Airmen
Henry J. Kaiser
Dwight Eisenhower
George Patton
Erwin Rommel
Bernard Law Montgomery
Rosie the Riveter
Harry S Truman
Clement Atlee

Events

The conquest of Ethiopia
The Reichstag fire
German re-armament
The Anschluss
The miracle of Dunkirk
The Fall of France
The Manchurian Incident
The Rape of Nanking
Invasion of Indo-China
Invasion of the East Indies
December 7th 1941
American campaigns in Africa and Europe
D-Day
Battle of the Bulge
V-E Day
Nuremberg Trials
Fall of the Philippines and the
Bataan Death March
V-J Day
The Zoot Suit Riots

Things and Concepts

Totalitarianism
Communism
Purges
Fascism
The Weimar Republic
The National Socialist Party
Stormtroopers
Mein Kampf
Aryans
The autobahn
Lebensraum
The Sudetenland
Appeasement
The Allied Powers
The Axis Powers
The Nazi-Soviet Pact
Poland
Blitzkrieg
Hitler’s conquests in 1940
Dunkirk
Maginot Line
Collaboration
Vichy France
The Royal Air Force
‘The Blitz’
Puppet states
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity
Sphere
Isolationism
America First Committee
Cash and carry
Destroyer Deal
Lend-Lease
Selective Service and Training Act
WPB, Office of War Mobilization, OPA
Liberty Bonds
Victory Gardens
Convoys
U-boats
Wolf Packs
The Red Army
Leningrad
Stalingrad
The Holocaust
Concentration camps and death camps
Genocide
Island Hopping
Kamikaze
Iwo Jima
Okinawa
The Manhattan Project
Japanese internment camps
The United Nations
Satellite nations
The Iron Curtain
The Cold War

Possible Essay Topics

Totalitarianism
Hitler’s relations with
neighbouring nations
Japanese expansion
Allied invasions of Europe
The use of atomic bombs
The Potsdam Conference
 

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